> > That is the question too. Why has never anybody written the complete> > decimal- or binary expansion of a periodic rational?>> Everyone who tried died of boredom before finishing.

In brief: It is impossible.>> No one has ever written down an actual number rather than the name of,> or numeral for, that number, so according to WM's thesis, we might as> well ignore all numbers entirely, as we never actually deal with them> directly.

No. We deal with irrational numbers by using their names. Alas, theset of names is countable.